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Brucellosis

Brucellosis [brucellosis; brucellas (Brucella, Ber – determinant of bacteria of Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology + Greek - Usis (словообраз. a suffix) – a disease; synonyms: a melitococsis, мелитококкоз, fever undulating, fever Mediterranean, fever Maltese, fever Gibraltar, Bruce a disease, Banga a disease] – the infectious disease entering into group of bacterial zoonoz excited by sort Brucella microorganisms which is transmitted in the contact or alimentary way from sick animals to the person; proceeds, as a rule, as a hroniosepsis with a recurrence and aggravations, a polymorphic clinical picture.

Allocate a brucellosis:

  • Goat-sheep type: the etiological option of a brucellosis excited by Brucella melitensis; at the person differs in heavy course with various complications and a repeated recurrence;
  • Cow type: the etiological option of a brucellosis excited by Brucella abortus; at the person differs in rather easy course of a disease;
  • Acute (acuta): the clinical form of a brucellosis differing in plentiful sweating, a fever, fever, arthritises, a polyadenitis, intoxication, increase in a spleen and liver, neurovegetative frustration and a leukopenia;
  • Pork type: the etiological option of a brucellosis excited by Brucella suis; at the person seldom meets and differs in rather easy course;
  • Chronic (chronica): the clinical form of a brucellosis differing in long course and variety of the symptoms forming according to preferential defeat of these or those systems and bodies against the background of organism allergization.
 
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